forestboy1978

What's your best guess on which way that's gonna fall? IMO - towards the house unless it's rigged.

I'm far too thick too even attempt to understand your meaning...

Those pics were before any training btw and my body is already fooked...

No you nob jockey. One of the main branches had been lopped 5 ft below the rest of the crown height. Next year it will look nice and be an easier pole prune to keep it's shape.I spent 12 years training bonzais, not real ones, but small trees. I know how to encourage their growth down the line.

In that case, slurp away! Do try to get into the nooks and crannies. Can't abide a half hearted slurping!

Thank you Tree-fancier Please accept my apologies for telling your to slurp on my nutsack ?

Had tree work yesterday also. Just reduce a tree line by 5 ft all the way a long. Nothing fancy. Absolutely done in mind. Legs feel like they have lead in then and my abs do too. Can't understand it. I carry 100kg fence posts around and shovel and dig etc. Why is my body so beat up?

Yep, the more tossers the better. Some people want the cheapest quote of course but I don't want that kinda customer base. It's not in my long term business interests. Quote for quality, make them happy, they come back and expect to pay again for quality. Quote low and crap and they may come back again but they want to pay crap for crap.

I'm not sure what I'm looking at really. What are they doing?

Thanks Khriss, you and Demspey, in his own very unique and special way are the only people on here who don't run me down. Well, he does, but it's done out of love lol

Really? So leaving pruning cuts with 1/3 lateral branches below cuts is gypo style is it? Slurp on my nutsack prick. You make a previous gypo butchers look like a bonsai without hurting the tree. What a tosser!

Wow you carry sheds up trees? My nigga ?

Anyone got any ideas on a safe place to stow a set of secateurs. I.e if i slam into a tree they would impale me.

No offence dude but I didn't really understand any of that lol

Oh well customer is happy, no one died. I think it'll establish well now over the next few years. The Oaks on the other hand... I'm going to make those things perfect. They've been reduced well in the past so I can really work with them quite easily... I hope! Will post pics. Very nervous!

I wanted to Mick but I didn't want to take too much off. Spent half an hour debating that very thing lol

Got a bunch of 50 ft oaks to be reduced by 1/3 later this week. TPO granted. Not sleeping well at the prospect....

OK so here is job that I did this morning. Personally I would have like to have shaped it better but the birch had been brutalised previously and getting symmetry while following pruning points was near on impossible as there were multiple severed branches that had nothing left on then so they just shot up long branches with no side growth. I toyed with the idea of narrowing it but I decided it'd be better to let it recover and go for a more uniform look in a year or 2 times. Flame on....

Picked it up on Saturday. No regrets. LOVE IT! Took family out to dinner on Sunday in the Forest and one of the roads was flooded in Beaulieu. Delighted to be unaffected by the flooding ? Only thing about these off road tyres is so easy to lose the back end in the wet in 2WD as it'll spin so I have to switch to 4WD in the rain on roads. Not sure if I can mess around with traction control setting to avoid that. Haven't even gone there yet. Also tyre pressure sensor seems to be not working properly. Not sure if this is due to the off rd tyres or not. I'm also not sure if the off rds are factory fitted. On temporary insurance ATM so need to figure this out by Saturday.

I'll be VAT registered again very soon. It's unavoidable. In the past I factored fixed costs were cheaper as they nearly all included vat so gave me some vat input. You can spend more money on marketing and claim VAT back. You just have to quote more and win less which is a killer at times of course. I've won many a job where I've not been the cheapest and I've won many when I've been the most expensive also. Feedback has been along the lines of, got a good vibe, seemed professional, didn't think the job could be done as well for cheaper etc. I am thinking along these lines with regard to my current status. Once I'm VAT registered, it will be what it will be. But I certainly expect to be always expanding from this point on and always spending on expansion to take advantage of VAT. I don't think one should aim to remain static and comfortable when they go VAT registered but always be pushing forward toward bigger and better. The other upside I found in the past when VAT registered is you will attract less tyre kickers and more commercial clients. Commercial clients can be easier in some senses, bigger jobs but bigger losses if you screw up. Also they have less consideration for you as a person which can be good and bad. I'm definitely NOT a good businessman so this topic is very interesting to me!

I bought one of these 2 or 3 years ago now https://www.amazon.co.uk/Snickers-18882604007-X-Large-GORE-TEX-Jacket/dp/B00AZPSQMY/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1535401172&sr=8-4&keywords=snickers+goretex+jacket It is bomb proof as far as longevity and I imagine it will still be in action in another 10 years without any exageration. Downside, too hot in anything above a few degrees. The one I have is triple layer goretex. I'm actually wishing I paid less and got the double layer goretex version as it is too hot. It's rarely freezing when it's raining... That said if you are working on a very light job or being a banksman on something or other then ideal.

FFS. 2 or 3 times now I've said I've taken on board advice!!! That quote is out of context. It is contrary to what I think and what I've been saying the last few posts... That above quote is about a pellet cracking a knee cap and someone being debilitated by that, which they would be, if shot by an unrestricted high velocity pellet gun in the knee. Fact. And I don't care what anyone say to the contrary, that would happen. Utterly pathetic to use a quote specifically in regard to one thing and then generalise it to make your holier than though sanctimonious ass seem smart....

Yep in all seriousness. Torch and megaphone from the bedroom window is what I'm leaning toward. Light up the whole area and turn megaphone on whilst I'm calling the police talking loudly on the phone about the criminal thieving scum, whilst they're in action.

I have CCTV, alarm and tracker on the van. A load dog also. I will know about it. Sue me for looking at reactionary methods barring 3 am boxer shorts fights with god knows who. Can of tuna fish and skiing sock it is...

Absolutely impossible if I was eating a banana!